Gruber Prize in Neuroscience
| The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Discoveries that have advanced the understanding of the nervous system |
| Location | Yale University Office of Development, New Haven, Connecticut |
| Presented by | Gruber Foundation |
| Reward | US$500,000 |
| First awarded | 2004 |
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The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience, established in 2004, is one of three international awards worth US$500,000 made by the Gruber Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
The Gruber Prize in Neuroscience winners are nominated by the Society for Neuroscience.
Recipients
- 2014 Thomas Jessell
- 2013 Eve Marder
- 2012 Lily Jan, Yuh Nung Jan
- 2011 Huda Zoghbi
- 2010 Dr. Robert H. Wurtz, NIH Distinguished Investigator at the National Eye Institute Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research
- 2009 Jeffrey Hall, professor of neurogenetics at the University of Maine; Michael Rosbash, professor and director of the National Center for Behavioral Genomics at Brandeis University; and Michael Young, professor and head of the Laboratory of Genetics at Rockefeller University
- 2008 John O’Keefe, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London
- 2007 Shigetada Nakanishi a molecular neurobiologist, Director of the Osaka Bioscience Institute
- 2006 Masao Ito and Roger Nicoll, cellular neurobiologists
- 2005 Eric Knudsen and Masakazu Konishi
- 2004 Seymour Benzer